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Meta Advertising Ban - Decision Published

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass The Irish DPC issued its final decision on Meta's illegal processing of user data for personal advertising.

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Forced Consent & Consent Bypass The Irish DPC issued its final decision on Meta's illegal processing of user data for personal advertising. Here is a download link and a first quick summary by noyb. The DPC decision clearly shows massive disagreement between the Irish DPC and the EDPB. Facebook Decision DPC Instagram Decision DPC Facebook Decision EDPB Instagram Decision EDPB Major fight between DPC and EU counterparts. The DPC decision makes it apparent that the Austrian, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish authorities all raised formal objections against the DPC decision. Traditionally, however, authorities do not formally raise objections, if it is clear that the matter was already raised by a number of authorities. The DPC did not even care to amend the decision and adapt its positions, but simply just copied the EDPB position into the previous decision. Max Schrems: "The decision reads like homework where the pupil did not even care to change

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